We all know that human activity is causing our planet to warm up at an unprecedented rate, but you probably didn’t know that it’s also changing the speed and shape of the planet as well? And the ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...

This discovery, though modest, revives a scientific debate nearly two centuries old. The idea of generating electricity from Earth's rotation isn't new. Yet a team led by Christopher Chyba (Princeton ...

The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth? A new study reports that researchers have successfully ...

Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field—according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists this week. The findings are controversial ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. So called human-built megastructures may actually be slowing down the Earth’s rotation.

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the ...

While it took decades to construct the dam, many media reports have claimed that it has an effect on the Earth's rotation. Is it really altering the Earth's rotation? Reports indicate that the dam ...

The impact of melting ice could eventually even outpace the Moon's effects on Earth's rotation. The science is clear about global temperatures—they're going up, and human activities are to blame.

"This means that a shift in mass is taking place, and this is affecting the Earth's rotation," explains Benedikt Soja, Professor of Space Geodesy at the Department of Civil, Environmental and ...

Think humans play a relatively small role in how Earth moves in space? It turns out we’re changing how our very planet rotates — and it’s affecting the length of our days. For billions of ...